Self-Portrait

The shadow is as real as
the shadow is as real as
the shadow is as real as the
shadow
shadow
shadow

The unreal is as real as
the unreal is as real as
the unreal is as real as the
unreal
unreal
unreal

The mirror is as real as the reflection
the jet is as real as the contrail
the trace is as real as the thought
the echo is as real as the sound
the dropping is as real as the bird
the worm is as real as the hope
the ebb the flow
the come the go
the hope
the pigeons chasing one another across the rocks
the motorboat drone
the sun on the back of the back of the back
of the writer of the poem of the day of the moment of the unreal of the real